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Show U of U Prepares "Carmen" For Summer Festival Bizet's ever-popular "Carmen," tale of gypsy passion, will open Elks Elect New President Emmet T. Anderson of I Wash., was elected Grand Vv ' Ruler of the Benevolent tective Order of Elks at fh Grand Lodge Session held i oi land, Ohio. He succeed r Vfs ' I. Hall of New York a8 toe of America's million Elks ' :: Anderson is a native of tw ': born in 1890, the same year Tacoma Elks lodge was instft,1 ' He has been a mfmber o u since 1917. m E'ki ': 5Friday in Stadium Bowl at 8:45.$ pjn. as the second feature of the annual University of Utah Sum-mer Sum-mer Festival. Kitty Carlisle, motion .picture, radio and opera star, will sing the title role. Robert Rounseville, who has just completed the lead in "The Great Waltz," will portray Don Jose, jealous suitor of Carmen. Mr. Rounseville has been widely acclaimed ac-claimed for his role as Johann Straus Jr. in "The Great Waltz." Theodor Uppman, personable baritone from the Pacific Coast and winner of the Atwater Kent auditions in 1947, will take the part of Escamillo the toreador. Music for the production, which will be sung in English, is under the direction of Maurice Abrava-nel. Abrava-nel. Especially imported for several dance sequences which have been added to the show are Roland and Jerry Vasquez, both of the San Francisco Ballet Co., who have been touted as one of the finest brother and sister acts in the modern mod-ern dance theatre. "Carmen" is the first opera attempted at-tempted by the University in more than a decade, and attention of theatre people from as far east as Pennsylvania has been attracted to the experiment. |